I was general bitching about the world with C the other day and this is what came up. She told me that there are rules for defence equipment manufacturers in sweden. I paste this rule from wiki
'' Enligt vapenexportlagen så får man inte exportera krigsmateriel till länder som är i krig, har en risk för att hamna i krig eller till ett land som bryter mot de mänskliga rättigheterna ''
It means that an arms company cannot export arms to countries in war or have chances of getting into a war or there is humanrights violations there. Ok fine.
I dont know much about the bofors scandel, neither does she. Ofcourse we were small kids back then. All i know is we got looted in the bofors scandel and it lead to the fall of Rajiv gandhis government in the next election.
Some more facts
In the 1980s, India wanted to buy the heavy artillery. Olof Palme(swedish Stadsminister) had personally raised the matter in talks with then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. From the Swedish state had also set up with credit support, and with guaranteed support, ie. that the order would be completed even if India would end up in an armed conflict.
Ok after that Olaf palme died. we didn't get the guns and Bofors AB was accused of accepting bribe for illegal export of arms from swedish media. hmmmm....
These assholes put in all kinds of world peace logic when it comes to arms deals with non white countries.
They sell weapons to US which ,kills in iraq .They show that they are kind people by taking in iraqi assylum seekers(i dont know how they tolerate the iraqis). Kinda hypocrites i must say.
Most baffling thing is a country that sells fighter planes such as the Jas Grippen, Bofors Guns and missiles and stuff gives away a peace Nobel peace prize. Shaa***.
I will add a swedish model of functioning to joke i heard in laughter challenge.
There are two people fighting for a Mango ,how to solve this problem?
Indian way: cut the mango and divide it equally.
Pakistani way: shoot one guy and give the mango to the other.
Amerikan way: kill both of them and eat the mango .
Swedish way: give them both weapons and they kill each other and then eat the unclaimed mango. (So that you are not the bad guy).
They have been cunning pussies this in the past too. Supplying ammunition and steel to the nazis when the nazis were winning and switching sides to the allies when the germans started loosing.
So much for the acclaimed svenska modellen(Swedish socio democratic model).
Well by the end of the fika, C admitted that Swedens policies are not totally correct. atleast she did.i am happy.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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